Connecticut western news., 1887-01-26
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TWO women were purnec to Geata in tie Lack woods of St. Louis county. Ne.
 Six hundred fishermen were caught on the lce in Lake Erie, when it broke up. It was with difficulty that their Hvas were saved, and many thrilling scenes occurred All were saved. ...-- .-.s ..s. -... -sDoc' Wilson is i, ,f.1s q .RrssiJanoe, r l., with only fifteen cents in his pocket, E suit Tor betrayal against him and his wife peti- ticner for divorce. Everybody, even his wife has deserted him.
 In NIw York Professor" Jchn De Leon wss found guilty in tbe Court of General Ses- sious, of kidnapping Mrs Sarah Bowes out of the State: He was engaged 10 send women to Panama for base purposes.
 Frederick Simors station master of the Fulton street electric light station, \. r.. was knocked from ladder and killed by electricity while cutting g wire on Vescy street during the burning of the Centennial tea store.
 The Pinkerton men nsaa their pistols at the coal tracks in Jersey City, N. J.. where the strikes occurred, and an innocent boy was killed. The victim was Thomas Hogan, a youth of sixteen years. His. slayer is not positively known.
 -Pcsh Houses of the Connecticut Lnsisla- tIre reelected Senator Hswley. The vote in the Senate was 13 for Hawley 10 10 for Charles R. IEgersoll. The total vote cast in tho House vas 227. Hawlcy received 19S; Ingersol, aS; and Henry C. Baldwin, Knight of Labor, |. Tho will of Rosa Y. Bu1ns niece of Vic toria c. Woodhnll, was admitted to probate by Surrogate Rollins of New Yorx. The estate is valued at SAC, eco, and was helueathed to Miss Burns by her father. She left < to her sbe- loved friend, Fernando de Francesca Martin" -Anthony Handy, a boy of 12 years, is charged with the murder of Elsie Walker, girl of 12 years a. Lapclle Island, Ga. The couple had disagreed while st play. Handy went ln;o the house, secured shotgun and lcdged the whole load in the back of Esie's head, killing her instantly.
 M. $. Quay was elected United States Sen- ator by this vote in tic Pennsylvania Lcgisla- ture: Houso-Quay tRep.l; 122: Wolverton SDcn }, 65. Senate-Qusy. a3; Wolverton, 13 Quay's majority, S5. This is final as the two | branches do rot mee; in joint session when the candidate has majority in each branch. . The visible supply If grain on Jan. 15, as <cGmpilcd by the Secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade. is as follows: Wheat, 6a, ,s24,- Vo0 bushels, decrease Of 532 0O0 bushels: corn, l5. s5S. .0G1, increase Of 69l0OO; cats, A. S0S,eoO. decrease of T1,e00: rye, 4S),(1i, in crease of o,coo; barley, 2.5't, ,eo2, decressc of 19o, ,oeo.
 Henry NJ. Stanley told reporter tia. the Enin Pasha relief expedition would 20 by way of Zanzibar, thst the enterprise wonld cost SlOO, 600 and that 1t wonid leave Zsnibar con- posed of 1000 men. Of these eight would be English and the rest natives of Zanzibar. Mr.
 
 progress of the expedition would reach Europe by July.
 E ishington Lake of WhitelayNrYa has I've grown daughteAN s2shitha was n1srried and tue young people celebrated the event by dancing all night and nearly all the next day. on the morning of the. second day, Martha, one of the sisters, lest her reason and became s ras' $ maniac, Knd four days later the bride s'eps mad. Since then tho three o.her sisters have shown evidences of insanity.
 -J. J. C2Ianrch, founder Of the Anoien. Order of United Norkmcn, d;rd at his homo in Stee,siile, Mo, aged G. He organized the first lodge of the order in Meaav:lle, Ps He was nschinest, and his idea wns la gt. all ciassfS ct lSorhmeE 10 cooperate fer their mr- tia: benefit. Reading rooms and Jihraries for thsir 1ae were features i'll h;s scheme. Tho oTier has grown to nearly 2e).000 members.
 -CornweH. Ons., was inundated iy an over Row os t,1c ST Lawrence. I:ych pgppariy iS damaged ald enc man drowned.
 --Aa explosion of D boiiar toob place near Indianapolis, Ind, ard it killed two men. inc hoiec Nss taIlea l25 feet distant.
 Mrs kate Louise Terry through her conn., sci, 5:. Jacob Eromnle, has sued-the New York World for s,O0.0ao damages for libel.
 William Diiie, a St. Louis cabinetnaker, tcok cooking knife from his wife's hand, an,. after plrnginS IL in her breast cut his own tkroa..
 In Troy, \. Y., t.i.ee persons were killed and sNsr twenty others made seriously i'll by t,iha!ing water gas supplied by c water gas company.
 --ttiNsr.l Livingston Go:mans. one of the editors ct tko f'opui0f' ScieBce Monthly, and widely kIioYu as writer on scientific subjects csisd at bis home in New York.
 A s.fcnle ,s en foot to transplant thou sand families of farmers, from New England to New Mexico.
 Is i'm, tha,r I,l during the destruction of the hotel at 'Ney Westminster, B. C.
 Miss Ca.harine Bruce, daughter of th late George Bruce. donated S30, 900 to the Ney York Free Circulating Library.
 A house on tine farm of Henry Edmund son, near Brentwood. Tenn. was burned. Tw coiored children perished in the flames
 A. S. Paddock who was United State Senator from Nebraska. preceding c. H. Val Wycs, has been elected successor to tha gentleman.
 -hershaw county, s. C., is agitated to tn point of calling in the aid of Judge Lynch b supposed incendiary fire, in which the wifi and two children of man named Bliss los their lives.
 The Canadian government are engaged il exeusing themselves to the imperial govern ment for their conduct toward the Unite, States on the fisheries question. X total bae down Is expected.
 In New York Officer Charles D. Abrams of the Elizabeth street police in pursuing prisoner who escaped from him at the Tombs fired two shots at the fugitive. one of whicl struck Pantaleo Canale and killed him.
 A fatal accident occurred In soap factor et Lincoln, III. IhrSe men were horribl scaitied. huge tank taining ten barrel >Cf boiling greese was opened without warnin 'rF the manhole plate breaking loose. Tn ssethlns grease poured out in stream ove the urfortunates.
 WASHINGTON.
 The U. S. Senate bill for the retirement the trade dollar was referred to the Committe of the Whole.
 The House passed the Interstate Con meree bill by 219to fl. It passed the Sena' previously by 43 to b.
 The Senate received petition askin Congress to suppress gambling and other vic' m the District of Columbia and in secret SC sion discussed the extradition treaty wit Great Britain.
 In the House Mir. Outhwaite's resolutio asking the Secretary of the Treasury for a opinion of the Pacific Railroad Funding bil Was passed The House passed bill protec ing designs which are patented.
 The Senate and House passed Mr. Vest bill authorizing the construction of a bride over the Mississippi River at or near St. Loui between the Eads Bridge and the mouth s. the Missouri River. The Senate passed bi appropr;ating $500, 900 to expedite the con : pse;ion of the Charleston ietties. 2 --Nr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, from tn Senate Committee on Pensions, reported bac hyorsbly the House bill for the relief of d, pendent parents and honorably discharge soldiers and sailors now disabled and depen, ent on their labor for support. He gave noti thct he would ask the Senate to take it up ar consider it It once
 In the Senate Mir McPherson introduced bill authorizing ch spge in the plans of | Arthur Kill Bridge. The plans now authori cd by Congress have been condemned by Il Board of Engineers, and the Secretary of W decides that he has no authority to authori change, which is for Congress to do. IT Senate very esyiy went into secret session, al sstended ths Hsxsiian treaty.